In a brilliant legal shenanigan, a teacher who faced rape charges for having sex with one of her pupils has escaped a possible 15 year prison sentence by divorcing her husband and marrying her victim.

The female teacher, now 42, pursued a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy at her North Carolina school. When her antics came to light, authorities charged her with statutory rape as the boy was a minor, charges carrying a possible 15 year sentence.

She somehow devised the scheme of marrying the boy, preventing him from being compelled to testify against her in court and causing the case against her to collapse.

North Carolina law contains the provision that the spouse of a defendant cannot be compelled to testify against them, preventing authorities from forcing the boy to testify against her and invalidating any previous testimony he gave police.

In aid of this, she divorced her existing husband (with whom she was married when she started her underage tryst) and 6 days later married the boy.

The boy, still a minor at the time of his marriage, could only consent to marriage with the permission of a parent, which his mother obligingly gave.

One of the local district attorneys was relatively gracious in accepting the loss of a juicy chance to inflict a massive prison sentence on a wicked sexual predator:

“None of the statements made in this case would be admissible without the victim. The defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against them.”

Unsurprisingly, the teacher still end up losing both her post and license, although the only legal repercussion from her antics was a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest stemming from her original arrest, which resulted in a 30 day suspended sentence.

It was only through this trial that the full details of her devious escape were made public – along with the obligatory (and presumably unflattering) police mugshot:

Ah yes, the hilarious fairy tale of “15 YEAR OLD WHICH IS FUCKING OLD ENOUGH DAMMIT” being “raped” by a female teacher. Snore.

Double Snore.

Grow the fuck up America, you look mighty stupid there. Hey why don’t you fags hand out a few semi-automatic assault guns to those poor bastards? Those horny females threaten the “freedom” of those horny pupils maybe?

Know what’s funny, if the guy lays the bitches like there’s no tomorrow, he’s a player. If the female teacher shags around, she’s a criminal. What’s the magic element in this situation, you ask? IT’S A FUCKING 15 YEAR OLD! OLD! THERE IS NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 15, 16, 17 HELL EVEN 18.

Most people start having sex around that time. It’s in our nature. Our bodies are naturally programmed to start having sex at that time.

This has nothing to do with Asian culture or it’s antics or video games. There are a billion other interesting things you can blog about but you decide to write about something completely irrelevant from your diagram.

Underage kids can’t live legal consent. However, beyond certain age, they are allowed to give consent in certain limited circumstances.
The mother consented that her son may marry, but she can’t give consent for the actual marriage itself. That’s still up to the boy.

and the poor kid’s wife has to be in her 40s. If her metabolism works like I think it does, she ain’t gonna be shedding that fat any time soon. A sane man would go abstinent, but unfortunately for him, he’s married to a woman that was capable of raping him before, so he doesn’t really have a choice in the matter. And as one last kick in the metaphorical groin, she’s close to an age where menopause starts to kick in, so there might be no (biological) children for him either (probably a good thing though; at least this unfortunate relationship won’t leave behind a materialized form).

“The boy, still a minor at the time of his marriage, could only consent to marriage with the permission of a parent, which his mother obligingly gave.”
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My question is why the fuck did the mother agree and give consent? It doesn’t make sense. Her son was raped! Why in the world would ANYONE allow their 15 year old offspring to take up such a huge commitment. Plus, given the circumstances, the mother should be nothing short of enraged.

Bible thumping state. It says right there in the big book of multiple choice that the rapist must marry the victim and pay the father 50 shillings. Not sure on the shillings to dollars conversion rate now but it couldn’t have been much. I figure since it was a woman who raped the boy the shillings and approval must have transferred to the mother.

A 15 year old girl. No fucking way. If you told me a 10-12 year old girl then ok, i will say her consent means nothing but a 15 year old no way. Have you seen some 15 year olds today?
I believe the law should change already and go down to 14 for sex.
Anyone with a little knowledge knows that true pedophilia is about children from about 13 and under and not teenage bodies and that in reality is quite biologically natural to lust over a teenage looking body.

The problem is that because a 30yr old man having sex with a 15yr girl “IS” rape because his mental and experience can trick a child into sex, a 21yr old man having with a 17yr girl is also “CONSIDERED” rape, because the same things.

That law about a kid being tricked is pure bullshit with girls (and boys) over 13.

Because as much as progressives refuse to admit it, men and women are DIFFERENT.

A 15 year old is only technically raped, because the law says when someone in North Carolina celebrates their 16th birthday, THEN they have the fitness of mind to consent to sex.

The kid Got Some. He didn’t wanna bust the Mrs. Robinson for it. His mother didn’t wanna bust her. The state, in its wisdom, chose to vigorously prosecute the case; the parties affected used the law to their advantage. Kudos to them.

probably overly conservative morality (both Carolinas are red states, aren’t they?). The teacher took her son’s virginity, so she has no choice but to take the teacher into her family and force her son to stay with her. Also, women aren’t capable of rape, at least so far as she’s concerned.

And I will have you know that it just doesn’t happen any more often in TN. Don’t try to shift the attention elsewhere. :-p

While it’s impossible to know for certain because incest is only recorded when it’s an incident with many going unreported, it is true that in 2010 Alabama led the country in incest-related crimes followed closely by Alaska of all places.

But just last year in 2012 who was leading? New York city, or more specifically Brooklyn. And runner-up? Washington D.C. I thought that was funny.